# 1748
Chapter 1748: Damage to Heavenly Court
Earth.
In the midst of the hazy gray fog, a figure abruptly stopped in his tracks.
A illusory gate was outlined in the void behind him. An Qingyu looked up at the gray sky in bewilderment, confusion flickering in her eyes:
"He made His move?"
A low growl emanated from within the gate. An Qingyu's expression shifted rapidly. After a moment of hesitation, she turned and continued walking into the fog.
But before she could take a few steps, a sharp pain surged through her mind, and a voice crossed the boundless void into her ears.
"Must you go..." The voice in her mind gradually faded. An Qingyu pressed her hand to her forehead and murmured to herself.
She stood in the fog for a long time before finally letting out a helpless sigh.
...
In the boundless depths of space, a temporal vortex had already enveloped the entire battlefield!
"So He still couldn't resist making a move..." Fate Monk gazed at this vortex, his expression somewhat complicated.
In the rotating temporal vortex, a wisp of gray fog drifted out, extremely similar to the mist currently on Earth, with one key difference—the concentration was over a hundred times denser, already so thick it appeared grayish-black!
Within this grayish-black fog, a flash of lightning arced across the sky.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye's mind instantly recalled past memories. He immediately channeled divine power into his voice and roared toward the distance:
"Watch out!!!"
After a brief moment of silence, jet-black lightning surged out from the center of the vortex!!
The color of that lightning was nearly indistinguishable from the pitch-black void of deep space, impossible for the naked eye to perceive. But the moment it appeared, everyone could sense a terrifying fluctuation capable of destroying stars sweeping across the entire battlefield!
The lightning streaked past the gods above at astonishing speed, heading straight toward Heavenly Court on the Moon!
When Lin Qiye first obtained 【Causeless Cause】 and 【Fruit of Determinism】, he too had drawn the 【Key to the Gate】 attempting to strike him across the void. But the destructive lightning he faced then was nothing compared to what he was witnessing now. This light that pierced through the cosmos was at least a hundred times more powerful than what he had encountered!
Although 【Key to the Gate】 sat upon the river of time, every time He crossed through time to make a move, He had to pay an enormous price... Judging from the intensity of this attack, 【Key to the Gate】 had truly gone all out this time. It was fair to say that for every thousand enemies struck down, He was injuring Himself ten thousandfold.
But there was no other choice. The appearance of Lin Qiye, carrying this entire game of chess, had directly disrupted the arrangements of the Cthulhu Faction gods. The Moon breach had been stabilized, 【Chaos】 had been sealed, and even the dozen-plus Cthulhu Faction gods that had been released had all been blocked.
If He still didn't act now, victory's scales truly might tip toward the side of Great Xia.
Seeing the jet-black lightning pierce through time and space, Lingbao Tianzun's pupils constricted sharply!
BOOM—!!!!!!
The lightning struck Heavenly Court, and black electric arcs exploded, instantly drowning most of Heavenly Court.
Visible debris ripples spread through space, and even the Moon's surface beneath Heavenly Court cracked with enormous ring-shaped fractures. The seal breach that had been torn open by 【Chaos】 was now expanded by twofold!
Surging explosion aftershocks swept across the entire field. Fragments of Heavenly Court and debris from the Moon whizzed past the gods.
They stared in astonishment at Heavenly Court submerged within the black lightning. Their hearts, which had just glimpsed the dawn of victory, instantly plummeted into despair!
"This is bad!!"
The two Celestial Venerables stabilizing their bodies at the Moon's edge witnessed this, their expressions changing simultaneously. They swiftly flew above Heavenly Court.
Through the crackling electric arcs, a ruined Heavenly Court stood alone atop the Moon breach. Dense waves of Cthulhu Faction gods surged beneath it, one after another sinister and eerie aura frantically pouring forth!
At the very center of Heavenly Court's ruins, a figure stumbled to rise from the scorched black earth.
"Cough cough cough cough cough..."
Lingbao Tianzun looked down at himself. The Heavenly Court origin—the Heavenly Court root source woven from several golden threads—was now shattered by nearly a third.
Forcibly suppressing the Moon seal, the Heavenly Court origin had already been operating under extreme overload. Even though his reaction just now had been extremely swift, the aftershock from the lightning explosion had still shattered one corner of the origin... From the very beginning, 【Key to the Gate】's target had been Heavenly Court's origin!
Damage to the origin was a lethal blow to the Gods of Great Xia.
But what was even more lethal was that beneath Heavenly Court, nearly twenty Cthulhu Faction gods still remained imprisoned...
If they too broke free, combined with those already on the battlefield, even if all the divine kingdoms that had ever existed on Earth were joined together, they might not be a match for them.
The black electric arcs faded in space. The temporal vortex that had shrouded the battlefield rapidly dissolved... This wasn't because 【Key to the Gate】 didn't want to strike again, but rather that this full-powered cross-temporal attack had already consumed most of His strength.
He couldn't possibly unleash the same attack a second time.
But this single strike was enough to overturn the entire tide of battle.
With the Heavenly Court origin damaged, all the Great Xia gods present sensed their divine power beginning to decline... Though the degree of decline wasn't significant, in the chaotic battle against the Cthulhu Faction gods, any overall decline in strength was a devastating blow.
A worm's head slammed into the surface of the翻天印, and a terrifying counter-shock rippled outward. Nearby, Guangchengzi's face instantly went pale. He spewed a mouthful of blood, and the翻天印 went flying backward.
At the same time, the other Golden Immortals were forced to retreat. The encirclement formation they had painstakingly established was instantly broken. Even the Kunlun Mirror hovering in the air wavered precariously.
"Monkey, watch out!"
Yang Jian saw the invisible giant wolf disappear again and immediately called out.
Sun Wukong's eyes narrowed. Thehuo yan jing ignited once more. He gritted his teeth against the weakness brought by divine power depletion, and swung the Ruyi Jingu Bang with all his might toward the emptiness before him!
But before his strike could land, a six-winged figure appeared first, interposing itself between him and the invisible giant wolf. A golden holy sword desperately resisted the wolf's gnawing, and rolling divine power scattered in all directions.
"Brother Monkey, how are you feeling?" Lin Qiye flashed to his side, frowning as he asked.
"It's merely a slight weakening of divine power... It's nothing."
Sun Wukong seemed completely unbothered by it, the blazing battle intent in his eyes burning unceasingly. But Lin Qiye could clearly sense his power decline. His brow furrowed tightly...
In the void, two figures rapidly flew in from Earth's edge.
Gongyang Wan and Wu "Old Dog" had finished dealing with their respective opponents and quickly filled the gaps in the Great Xia gods' formation, temporarily stabilizing the situation.
Before Lin Qiye could even breathe a sigh of relief, several roars that directly struck the soul echoed from beneath the Heavenly Court ruins in the distance!